Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Ideas

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

10.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

11.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

12.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

13.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

14.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

16.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

17.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

18.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

19.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

20.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

21.

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

22.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

23.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

24.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

25.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

26.

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

27.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

28.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

29.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

30.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

33.

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

34.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

35.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

37.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

38.

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

39.

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

40.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

42.

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

43.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

44.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

46.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

48.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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